by Sinclair Lewis · Nórdica Libros S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492683116
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«Babbitt» is Sinclair Lewis's novel of social criticism, published by Nórdica Libros in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
The novel revolves around George F. Babbitt, an apparently successful, conservative businessman from the Midwest full of contradictions, a portrait of the American middle class of the 1920s. Lewis shows life before the Great Depression; the protagonist's surname came to designate the average American man.
Published in 1922, it belongs to the Otras Latitudes collection, number 21, with a translation by José Manuel Álvarez. Sinclair Lewis received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930.
For readers of American literary classics interested in the social portrait of America in the first half of the twentieth century.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
